Tuesday, August 31, 2010

On Saturday, we had her bridal shower. It was amazing and a ton of people showed up........no surprise though considering Natalie knows 1,000 people!!!

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The Montez girls!!! LOVE!!!!

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Last night was Natalie's Batchelorette party. We know how to live it up!! Hahaha! It was more like a dinner party than a batchelorette party. But we had a ton of fun and it was good to see some of Natalie's friends that I haven't seen in a while. Not to mention MY good friend Christina!! Miss this girl!

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Christina, me and Paralee

More LOVE!

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The whole gang! Fun night....good times!

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My sister.....my best friend! LOVE HER!

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Can't take enough pictures with these girls. They are my most favorite girls in the world......well, other than Kylee of course! :)

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Bridal shower....DONE! Batchelorette party....DONE! Next up......THE WEDDING!!! Woo hoo! Can't wait! Natalie deserves all the happiness in the world and I can't think of a better man and a better family for her to be joining. Love you Natty! Now I'm off to find my dress! Ugh!

Saturday, August 7, 2010

My baby girl may have had her party yesterday, but she isn't 5 until Monday!!! So I still have one more full day to keep her my baby!!! But who am I kidding?? Whoever knows Kylee knows that she just can't wait to grow up. She is always trying to act grown up and she always wants to hang out with the big kids, because she wants to be a big kid! She is so excited to be 5!

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Her party was a huge success! Every single friend she invited was able to come! She had an absolute blast! When I asked her what kind of party she wanted, she said she wanted a water slide (again) but to make sure she had pink princess decorations and plates and cups. She was adamant about that! So here is what her decorations (on a budget) turned out to be...

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Princess cups, plates and napkins just like the princess herself ordered! Of course there is Toy Story stuff too because I wasn't about to make the boys at her party eat off of silly girl stuff!

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Yes, I made these myself! Don't go taking orders now because I'm not going to turn this into my business! Hahaha!

*Blowing out the cupcake candles with her friends at the first portion of her party...

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Blowing out the candles on her cake for her second party with her cousins and family...

She was such a lucky girl to have a 5 hour party!!!!! It was broken down into sections though because Mommy couldn't handle having a gazillion people in her tiny house!*

All her friends (and the Montez cousins)...

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WATER SLIDE TIME!!!!!

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Kylee's party was awesome and I'm pretty sure David had more fun on that slide than all the kids did put together! Haha! Kylee got a ton of great presents from all her family and friends! She got a cool make-up kit from her Grandma Dede and couldn't wait to use it on me! Aren't we just beautiful?!!

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*As tradition would have it here on my blog, I have to post my picture update of my growing princess! I do this every year and it never gets old looking back and posting pictures of her throughout the years. I wish so bad that I could just hold and cuddle this baby one more time! She was the cutest baby!!!!! I'm so thankful that she is still a cuddle bunny because I get to hold and cuddle her anytime I want!

*2 weeks old...

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1 year old...

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2 years old...

*3 years old...

*4 years old...

*5 years old...

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Happy birthday sweet princess girl! I don't know if you will ever realize just how much I love you. You are my everything! Your daddy and I thank our Father in Heaven every day for giving you to us and blessing our lives to the fullest! We don't know what we would do without you in our lives. You make our struggles and trials seem so small. You make us laugh everyday. You keep our hopes and dreams alive and you always know how to melt our worries away. With every year that you grow and change, you enrich our lives even more. We are so excited for you to start Kindergarten and can't wait to watch you learn and grow. Happy birthday sweet princess! We love you so much!

About Us

A lot has changed for our little family! We adopted our sweet baby boy Carter Aaron in November of 2011 and our family couldn't feel more complete with the addition of our sweet miracle. David is loving work, as always, and has recently started a new position as a detective! We are so proud of him and how hard he works. He is the Young Men's President in our ward now too, which keeps him even more busy. Stefany is enjoying every second of being a stay at home Mom to Carter and Kylee. It is a dream come true! She is working part time as a college, high school, and club volleyball official. She also just recently got a calling in the nursery and loves having Carter with her in there. Kylee is in 2nd grade and is loving being in the same class as her cousin Cole. She is in dance and just ended her first season of softball. Mom and Dad are so proud of all her accomplishments. Carter is thriving as well and hitting major mile stones. He is the happiest little baby and loves to discover his world around him! We just love him and we can't get enough of our little adventurous man. Life is better than we ever could have imagined with our sweet little family. Life is good!